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6 Medical Construction & Design | M AY/ J U N E 2016 | MCDM AG.COM Projects A fi ve-year expansion and modernization project recently commenced at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Virginia. The $199-million project will add three fl oors each to two existing wings, expand the emergency department, expand and modernize 18 operating rooms, replace a 48-bed ward-style special care nursery and consolidate 54 ICU beds on two fl oors. Construction is scheduled to be com- plete in 2020. HDR Architects designed the project. Whiting-Turner is the primary contractor. Construction has begun on a new 74,000-square- foot rehabilitation pavilion at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida. The Gresham, Smith and Partners-designed building, to be built by Skanska, will house comprehensive clinical rehabilitation services and is scheduled to open in December 2016. The fi ve-story pavilion will include 44 private rooms on two fl oors dedicated to inpatient care. Banner Health has awarded a contract to WSP + ccrd for the design of building systems for a new 13-story addition to its Banner Health Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The 400,000-square- foot tower addition will be erected on top of a three-story, 300,000-square-foot emergency department under construction. Building systems will include a new 12.47kV normal distribution system, a new 10MW 4.16kV emergency power plant, new hot water heating system and a 1,045 ton chiller and cooling tower expansion. Construction is scheduled for completion in early 2020. Robins & Morton recently celebrated the topping out of the new Choctaw Nation Durant Regional Medical Clinic . The clinic is a 20-acre campus- style development, which includes three buildings totaling 174,000 square feet. The three buildings include the clinic, health administration and facilities maintenance. The project's estimated completion date is January 2017. SPECIALTY CARE New Cancer Center Opens in Illinois AMITA Health has recently opened the AMITA Health Cancer Institute and Outpatient Center in Hinsdale, Illinois. Realized by contractor Bulley & Andrews and architecture fi rm ESa, the center represents the future of cancer treatment. The design by ESa is thoughtful and per- son-centered, with features such as imaging areas visually separated from treatment ar- eas. This way, undiagnosed patients would not be waiting in the same of ces as pa- tients already receiving intensive therapy. Bulley & Andrews found solutions to the project's structural demands. The institute houses four massive vaults for equipment related to imaging, scanning and radiation. The walls, fl oors and ceilings of every vault are made of solid concrete between 4- to 8-feet thick. In addition, the building was designed to allow for future vertical expan- sion, which required extensive additional reinforcement of the existing load-bearing walls, above and beyond the reinforce- ment needed to support the vaults. completed & upcoming NEW CONSTRUCTION > COST: $48 MILLION > SIZE: 54,000 SQUARE FEET > 19 PRIVATE TREATMENT ROOMS IN BRIEF Sentara Norfolk General Hospital